TAMMS MAN DIES WHEN PICKUP LEAVES ROAD AND HITS TREE

OLMSTED, Ill. -- A Tamms man is dead and his 4-year-old daughter hospitalized after an accident Sunday south of Olmsted.

At 11:50 a.m., Joseph R. Eaves, 28, was driving his pickup on Route 37 two miles south of Olmsted when he ran off the roadway, according to the Illinois State Police. He apparently drove back on the road, oversteered and went off the road on the other side, hit a guardrail and rolled down a steep embankment.

Eaves was thrown from the truck, and the truck rolled over him. His wife, Jennifer Eaves, 21, his son, Joseph Eaves Jr., 2, and his daughter, Brandy Eaves, 4, were riding in the truck. Jennifer Eaves and Joseph Jr. were treated for minor injuries and released at Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis.

Brandy sustained a broken leg and was flown to Children's Hospital in St. Louis for observation because she recently had a liver transplant there, the State Police said.